While Reggie is at the Field Ambulance

While Reggie is at the Field Ambulance, the 8th KORL spend time under Major B.H.H. Perry in various lines of training, spend some in providing work parties in Arras and finally move back behind the lines.

  • 1st to 7th Feb
    Training at Villers-Brûlin
  • 8th Feb
    Moved to billets in Wanquetin
  • 9th to 15th Feb
    Training in Wanquetin
    Musketry
    Bombing
    Lewis guns
    Practice attacks in conjunction with trench mortars
    Fatigues
  • 16th Feb
    Moved in platoons to excellent rooms in Arras
  • 18th to 27th Feb
    Work parties
  • 28th Feb
    Moved back to Wanquetin
    War diary of the 8th KORL signed by B.H.H. Perry Major commanding 8th Bn. King’s Own (R.L.) Regt.